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[3] [4] Part of the reasoning behind the Epic Games Store was to show that Epic could operate this storefront at a 12% revenue share. [5] Epic released Fortnite Battle Royale for computers and consoles in 2018 as a free to play title supported by microtransactions, allowing players to buy in-game "V-bucks" currency for cosmetic items. When ...
Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
Cary-based Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, filed a lawsuit against Google three years ago, alleging that the internet search giant has been abusing its power to shield ...
Epic Games has used the names Potomac Computer Systems, Epic MegaGames, and Epic Games; the name given for the company is the one used at the time of a game's release. Many of the games under the Epic MegaGames brand were released as a set of separate episodes, which were purchasable and playable separately or as a group.
In 2020, Epic Games announced it would accept direct payments on the mobile app version of Fortnite. The move briefly allowed the company to circumvent Google and Apple’s in-app fees on purchases.
Cross-play is related to but distinct from the notions of cross-platform development, cross-platform releases, cross-buy, and cross-platform save game cloud synchronisation. Cross-platform play, while technically feasible with today's computer hardware, generally is impeded by two factors. One factor is the difference in control schemes between ...
Epic Games gifted certain Fortnite players 950 V-Bucks for free. That’s enough in-game currency to afford the current battle pass, which itself is the best way to gain even more V-Bucks as well ...
Epic Online Services is a free SDK based on Epic's Fortnite code that allows developers to implement cross-platform play features in their games, including matchmaking, friends lists, leaderboards, and achievements, with support for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android systems.